Having ideas is trivial. Having great ideas isn’t.
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Step 1: be moderately intelligent Step 2: generate 1,000 ideas Step 3: subject these 1,000 ideas to taste, scrutiny, feedback, criticism Step 4: identify the best ideas amongst these, and use your hypotheses about what makes them great to generate 1000 higher quality ideas
Alt: Step 1: be moderately intelligent Step 2: read a bunch of stuff by other people from whatever areas seem interesting Step 3: try to explain everything in terms of everything else Step 4: synthesize wildly from the bits that worked
